Sup Forums I'm going to university for >compsci in a week and I'm not sure if I should get a new laptop.
I've had my HP Pavilion g6 for about five years, and when I got it at the time is was fairly expensive, however right now it's a piece of shit.
>Loud as fuck fan all the time >Slow >Battery doesn't charge so it's like a desktop >Shuts off from overheating all the time >20 minutes to start back up if it is turned off or accidentally unplugged
I'm not sure how a computer can have this happen after only five years. My old ass t42 even works better.
So should I buy a new laptop or is there a way to fix this? The worst part is I checked bestbuy.ca and there is a sale for a 500$ hp laptop but the specs are not even better than my current laptop which is pic related
This one seems good but I don't know a lot about computers like you guys
Kevin Richardson
What's your budget, and (besides your compsci programming homework) what will you mostly be doing on it?
Also try /r/suggestalaptop.
Bentley Richardson
>5 years Honestly kind of makes sense, but you probably didn't give it a whole lot of maintenance over time.
1) Go onto Ebay and search for "HP Pavilion g6 battery"
2) Open it up and clear out all the dust and trash that's built up over 5 years
3) Replace HDD with SSD
If you're doing the whole "gayming on a laptop" thing, 5 years was pretty fucking good considering the abuse it went through. Hate recommending plebbit to people but the board mentioned here is good for your needs since they'll walk you through part of it, not so much here.
Julian Rivera
Have you even tried to reinstall the OS ? Because that might resolve 3 of your problems
Juan Carter
if (budget >= 1000) { buy new_thinkpad_precision_or_xps ; }
else if (budget
Kayden Miller
Well the first three years I had it I played vidya pretty heavily on it. Thousand hours of dota plus other games. But I don't play vidya anymore.
Did I fuck it up?
I'm not sure I can reinstall it because it's windows 8. I hardly use this laptop anymore since it is so shit but going to university I'm going to need to
I'm thinking about 500CAD. My dad said he would buy me a laptop but he didn't say what price. I don't want him to spend too much money and normally I would just buy it myself but recently I got kidnapped and tortured by hells angels and lost about 10k and I don't have any money anymore
William Ross
Here are some suggestions which should fit your budget. See which ones have the specs that appeal to you the most.
Is doing this what you mean? I don't have the CD to reinstall windows but I don't really need any of my programs or files I have on my computer currently. I've mostly just been booting tails off a usb whenever I need to use my computer. I will google how to clean my laptop too
Nolan Hill
You won't be needing a laptop. t. computer science student
Connor Sanders
Get a can of compressed air and spray the innards.
You will need a Windows 8 ISO. Try to get ahold of the Enterprise edition if you can for maximum control over your OS.
Aaron Long
I think it was a good thing it happened to me
Samuel Taylor
So I'm not going to buy another laptops, I'm going to do as you guys suggested. Buy another battery, buy an SDD, take apart my laptop and clean it and put in the SDD and then pirate windows and reinstall it again since I don't have the disk.
Then I should be all goood right
Alexander Cox
Scratch that last part, making a recovery usb stick
Liam Cruz
Should have bought a business laptop, my 7 year old HP still has 88% of the battery's original capacity
Jayden Powell
You can get the new Inspiron 7000 with 960M, it's essentially an alienware that's cheaper without the cringy packaging, though with a worse keyboard
Austin Hernandez
Isn't the second 'if' superfluous? Just asking.
Lucas Turner
this
All it will do is distract you and tempt you to get bored of the instructor and browse Sup Forums and play games during class.
I'm in my third year of university for compsci and never once actually NEEDED my laptop for class, even though I bring it every day.
Eli Lopez
Yes. Its not needed
Bentley Lopez
I would not go to college with under 32 GiB of RAM